Post by cowboyleland on Aug 10, 2010 14:52:17 GMT -9

OK I've been working on some 2.5 D monsters and pc figs off and on for a few years and I've used them in my games some times. The theory is that stand up from the table look good from the top, (since most of us don't play with our chins on the table) an fold flat for storage. I feel like I will never be good enough at texturing etc. to make a commercial go of it , so it is time to release them on the world. Right now they exist as gimp .xcf files. What should I do so you guys can have a look at them

Post by cowboyleland on Aug 11, 2010 17:08:28 GMT -9

Please check out my OGL compatible ogres and let me know what you think. I think "assembly" is self explanatory, but if not, feel free to ask for some tips.

I've also got trolls and a Balor (again OGLish) as well as some player character pirates, but I warn you the pc's are fiddlier 'cause they are that much smaller and I think they need re-jigging to make them simpler

Post by cowboyleland on Aug 12, 2010 13:24:35 GMT -9

I thought the same thing when I saw Tirick's stuff. I found out he is somewhere in Ontario, as I am, so I figure there is something in the water. I want to post some trolls next but it depends on how a meeting goes tonight.

Post by cowboyleland on Aug 12, 2010 17:07:47 GMT -9

Thanks to you too, Tirick and yes ease and speed of build, as well as fold flat storage, were really important to me as I started to design.

I've gone ahead and posted some more troll picks as well as a Bebilith at www.flickr.com/photos/cowboyleland/ and I have a Balor almost ready to go. I was once working through the OGL in alphabetical order

The Bebilith and Troll include some "teasers" of a swashbuckler, but I have modified (simplified) that page of figs quite a bit since that prototype so it should get a test build before I put it up. That, and the Balor, will have to wait until I get some free time.

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cowboyleland: Now I have seen it. It doesn't advance our hobby, but anyone with half a brain who wanted 2nd rate figures could easily figure this out for themselves so I guess he isn't doing any harm.Mar 19, 2019 17:53:59 GMT -9

berneart76: well, this is fun, (not) transferring all my papercrafting sets into the cloud. The stuff I got from DriveTrhruRPG was simple with their library desktop app,but my other stuff, sometimes with multiple duplicate copies is entertaining.Mar 1, 2019 15:44:32 GMT -9

berneart76: Vermin King I usually use a mix of drybrush/watercolor/photocopy and occasionally posterizing at different levels of opacity.Feb 26, 2019 20:46:54 GMT -9

berneart76: Vermin King, that's similar to the enhancing that I do on my texturing. I've found that sometimes I need to scale up or scale down the image (usually by 50 or 25 percent down or 200 or 300 percent up) to make get the enhancements to look "right"Feb 26, 2019 20:44:53 GMT -9

Vermin King: On the zebras, I did multiple enhancements and cartoon filters and used them at 100%, and they still didn't look that different than the photosFeb 26, 2019 12:27:26 GMT -9

Vermin King: When I make a figure or terrain piece based on a photo, I clean it up and align things to look 'right', then I create another layer and do enhancing and cartoonizing on it. I then adjust opacity over the photo image until it looks good. On the zebras, Feb 26, 2019 12:26:35 GMT -9

Vermin King: berneart76, do you mean giving them green or purple manes and tails? and a few piercings? maybe a cig hanging out of their mouths?Feb 26, 2019 12:24:18 GMT -9

Vermin King: And due to the snow, I'm off tonight. I am going to miss the cash on the paycheck, but I'm glad they want their employees to be safeFeb 15, 2019 10:52:24 GMT -9

ignatious: Actually I was referring to the two previous posts. I was trying to be subtle in order to sublimate the crassness. Read them again, but in Mel Brooks voice while he is winking, and nudging the person to his right.Feb 9, 2019 13:38:11 GMT -9

cowboyleland: We hadn't had snow for a few days. Last night the plow came down my street and did nothing but fill every ones driveways back in. Just for practice, I guess.Feb 8, 2019 7:48:16 GMT -9

Vermin King: In KC we had an ice storm (with thunder sleet) the other night. Left things drivable, but last night the plow came down my street. They took all the rough edges off. Might as well have ran a Zamboni...Feb 8, 2019 6:42:32 GMT -9